“Both of those projects are being done as demonstration projects so they can be changed. They were fairly low cost to put in," Bearup said. "If that design works and we find funding, hopefully sometime soon we will come back and make those changes permanent."

Bearup says his department has lost $200 million over the past five years for road work because of declining gas tax revenues.

He says a few people have already complained about the changes on Grand Avenue because it has been narrowed from five lanes to three lanes for a short distance south of McDowell.

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We remember Grant Tinker, who died last month at 90. He founded MTM productions with his then-wife Mary Tyler Moore and produced her hit TV show. Later as chairman of NBC, Tinker oversaw the hit shows Cheers, Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere.

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